Hi, Flex is an Apache open source project. Adobe as a company has no control over it but Adobe employees are free to (and do) contribute. That's how the ASF works.
Slightly off topic but there was a very good session at ApacheCon NA on the managing the risks of using open source - perhaps it can put things into perspective? http://lanyrd.com/2013/apachecon/scbttz/ http://archive.apachecon.com/na2013/presentations/28-Thursday/Community_Over_code/14:45-Managing_Project_Risk_when_using_Open_Source-Nick_Burch.odp Thanks, Justin